Tools for climate and agriculture
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Here’s a new toy you can play with to see how agricultural losses as measured by crop insurance claims vary from year to year and state to state. It’s an interactive map viewer by the USDA Southwest Climate Hub, and allows you to dig down to the county level to see variations by crop as…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press wrote an interesting story this week on a new interactive global map which is supposed to be so detailed that you can zoom down to individual farm fields. I’ve played around with it a little bit and it is pretty interesting to see. For some products you can…
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You may have heard the the recent trend to warmer temperatures across the US is affecting the range of native birds as well as different tree species across the country. But how much are they changing? You can use the NOAA Climate Toolkit to explore those changes in their atlas for birds and trees. You…
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Do you ever plan outdoor events where the weather is likely to be a factor? A fun run, a church or neighborhood picnic, or a wedding? If so, you might be interested in this quick and easy place to find the weather on a particular date in previous years. While, as they say, “past performance…
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Since it looks like frost may be coming to parts of the Southeast in the next week, I want to provide you with some links to help you find current forecasts for frost. It looks like to me that we are likely to see our first scattered frost in northern Georgia next week Wednesday or…
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Now that fall has finally arrived, it’s time to start thinking about when frost will return to the Southeast. Here are a few resources to help you find the average date of first fall frost. I will post an article later this week that describes how to get real-time frost forecasts. Keep in mind that…
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The USDA Climate Hubs has just released their new website, which provides information on the individual hubs and activities related to climate and working lands across the US. They still have a few bugs to work out on the pages, but you can check out the national page at https://www.climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/ or go directly to the…